A Few Dance Game Firsts

One of Sean's and my mutual friends, Omar Ambrose, asked the following the other day:

"Who can remember their:

1st ever DDR song played

1st ever ITG song

1st ever AAA on any DDR

1st Ever quadstar on ITG"?

I may have been able to find more precise answers to the first two questions with a bit more digging but settled for replying with a combination of what I could recall and what I found through a quick Facebook search instead:

1. Not sure, but possibly We Will Rock You. Nicholas DeOrnelas was probably there for the moment on on DDR Extreme on 6/27/03, since he's the one that introduced me to dance games.

2. Not sure, but I wanna say ROM-eo & Juli8 or Zodiac. David Frausto or other old friends from the Oh Wow! Nickel Arcade may have been there at the time, shortly after ITG1 came out.

3. 1998 on 12/22/10. I didn't play DDR very seriously after getting into ITG and was usually more about the passes than the scores, so this took me extraordinarily long. (Bonus: Sean got this AAA two days later too!)

4. You Spin Me Round [9] on 12/25/10 (Christmas day and 3 days after my first AAA!). My first quad on an ITG official chart, however, was roughly 13 months later: Boogie Down on 1/29/11

Quote by Paul "Bear" Bryant on Earning Victory

"It's not the will to win that matters—

everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters."— Paul "Bear" Bryant

My Sexuality

Something I wish I'd been better at verbalizing in my dating years: I'm typically only attracted to people who seem attracted to me or attainable. Beyond a one-night stand, I can be choosy about looks and even choosier about personality. Women aren't attracted to me as often as men, so the odds of me finding one I'm attracted to are much lower than with men. I typically prefer relationships with men. I'm typically more lustful toward men. I prefer sex with women.

There's Very Little I Won't Do

I like to think of myself as an open-minded but typically discerning person these days. My life has been a rollercoaster, however, and one thing I've learned while riding it is that there's almost nowhere I won't go, no work I won't take, nothing I won't eat, no one I won't sleep with, nothing I won't do if it's TRULY the ideal option available to me in a situation that calls for it. 

Quote: Being The Best = Effort

"If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do." — Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps

"but that sounds like effort 😒" — me

Quote on Making the Most of It

"Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes playing a poor hand well." — Jack London

Willpower? Pshhhh

I'll never understand why people struggle with willpower. If I want to do something, I just buckle down and do it. When I want a cheeseburger in my belly, I just bite the bullet (well, the patty) and chomp one. If I've always wanted a pony, I'll just suck it up and buy one. If seeing what it feels like to eat a whole cheesecake in one sitting is my New Year's resolution, I'll have it done by sunup January 1st. Nothing stands between me and my goals.

Dear Brain, Please STFU, and let me sleep

Me: *tries to sleep*

Brain: Are you prepared in the event that someone lights your house on fire? 

Me: Oh no, you're right. Let me just get out of bed and go fireproof my house real quick.